>>>What is the proper use of a dollar sign in a price display? In English, should we put it at the end or at the beginning? Also, what about French?
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>>The general rule seems to be to display it in the way it would be used in the native country.
>>So U.S. dollars would be $1,000,000 ; Euros 1,000,000€ UK Sterling £1,000,000 etc regardless of context in which they are being used....
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>>Or use the other convention 1,000,000USD , 1,000,000EUR, 1,000,000GBP etc ?
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>I think that the € should precede the amount like the dollar and the sterling, although that varies per country
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>see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_sign under Usage

Maybe the Euro wasn't a good choice for an example :-}
Certainly most of the EU countries place it after the amount.
IIRC Germany used to use Dm100 etc for the Deutchemark but now uses a suffixed euro sign ?
What do they do in Belguim ?

Wkipedia contradicts itself here :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_sign
"The standardized European default placement, used in absence of a national standard, is that (€) is placed before the amount"
Anyway who are the americans to dictate where we put our currency symbols (g,d & r)

>If you use EUR/GBP/USD I've always heard that you can put the currency before or after the amount
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>USD 1,000.00
>1,000.00 USD

I think we should abandon this discussion and accept the ruling of the ultimate authority
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb688126.aspx)
ie. use .NET CultureInfo and GetCurrencyFormat() :-}